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"And on 11 May last year, he went out, bought a phone and didn't notify the police that he had done so," she said.

"When the phone was found, there was one category A image, three category B images and 82 category C images found. The search history also showed that he had made a number of searches for illegal images."

She told the court he had previous convictions for a number of indecent assaults on teenagers.

"He knows he's going to spend the best part of the next four years looking at the inside of a prison cell," he said. "He will do this best in prison to behave himself."

Sentencing him, Judge Erik Salomonsen said: "You are a 66-year-old sex offender. You started offending in 1970 and you have carried on. It is abundantly clear you've had an unhealthy interest in children all this time.

"You were released to a bail hostel and foolishly said you were going to get a phone and use it to look at illegal images. You then bought a phone and did just that."